Sunday, April 9, 2017

April 9, 2017 - Math Circle 2.0

Warm up

Calculating the number of triangles in an object....

















There are 4 math circle students:
Count the total number of items that the students have:

Shirts?

Shoes?
Fingers?

Max was able to bake cookies.  He put a the cookies in 3 rows, with 4 cookies in each row.  How many cookies did he make? Are there other problems that can be solved like this?

Cabbage Patch Problem:


Divide the cabbage patch into 6 sections that contain only two cabbages in each section using only 3 straight lines.

























Speed and Time

The sphero robot needs three parameters to travel:
  • Direction (in the coordinate system we learned)
  • Speed 
  • Time (in seconds)


Program sphero to make start at a point, move to a second point, and then move to a final point at speed of 50.




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